jazzc
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The whole anti-gmo issue is really an anti-science issue.
And you know that because you're a hardcore science guy, right?
The whole anti-gmo issue is really an anti-science issue.
And you know that because you're a hardcore science guy, right?![]()
I'm not really hardcore
Sorry to be rude but thats the most stupiest i ever read.How can you claim that GMO's increase nutrition value and makes healthy ?
I guess over 90% of european people,russia and even china dont wont GMO's cause they dont want to be healthy.
Maybe you should read some case studies about GMO modified potatos and how fast they cause cancer and changes in your organs.
Search for Arpad Pusztai a known professor and teacher on university who tested the effect of gmo modified potatos and got fired for publishing it
GMO's can't cause cancer, they are just modifying a few genes to resist droughts and grow easier, they aren't injecting cancer causing genes into them. The whole anti-gmo issue is really an anti-science issue.
GMO is okay normally and what they release to the public is tested extensively so I never fear about that. The benefits for health and overall food production is what matters in the end, and GMO is one viable way to do it.
That's bullshit. Why don't they label it so that people have a choice? It's got nothing to do with health, it's all business.
If one pharma company found the cure for aids, they aren't going to supress it they are going to put a high price and sell it. If Pharma companies are willing to screw over customers they are willing to screw over other companies to not lose money.
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." - Albert Einstein
The Method Behind the FDA's Madness
It eventually came to light that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had pressured the Texas medical board to revoke Dr. Burzynski's medical license?despite the fact that no laws were broken, and his treatment was proven safe and effective.
But WHY?
It's been stated many times that a crime can be solved simply by following the money, and this case is no exception. The FDA and the pharmaceutical industry had realized that if Dr. Burzynski's discovery?which he owned the patent for?received a fair review, chemotherapy and radiation would rapidly dwindle into obscurity, effectively crippling the industry. Not only that, but if antineoplastons were approved, billions of dollars of cancer research funds would get funneled over to one single scientist who had exclusive patent rights...
Dr. Richard Crout, Director of the FDA Bureau of Drugs, once wrote in a 1982 newsletter:
"I never have and never will approve a new drug to an individual, but only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances."
It became clear that ever since 1977, when Dr. Burzynski first tried to get antineoplastons approved, the FDA had begun scheming to eliminate the threat he and his discovery posed to the entire cancer industry...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28212223
http://www.who.int/trade/glossary/story073/en/
http://www.plunkettresearch.com/food-beverage-grocery-market-research/industry-and-business-data
Because in the broadest sense of things, we have been genetically modifying our food for thousands of years and it's never been needed. People can have choice, go to a farmers market. You won't see it at stores because it's business, why waste shelf space when the average customer doesn't care. Also it is business first for the large scale farmers who are trying to max profits and efficiency (that is not wrong imo), but the health benefits of having more accessible and larger crops is great for the consumer.
Vaccines work and there is overwhelming real-world evidence that they do.
Just look at Smallpox, one of the most dangerous diseases known to man - eradicated with a vaccination programme.
Or Polio - almost the same thing.
And there are many other diseases which have been massively reduced directly as a result of vaccines. Tetanus and Diphtheria for example.
Yes, there are diseases our bodies are more than capable of fighting off naturally - but when it comes to virulent and deadly diseases, vaccines have saved millions of lives.
Hello from a trained molecular biologist,
GMO is a very broad term and grouping all GMO food as bad is completely idiotic. The issue with the potatoes in the Arpad Pustai experiment is that the potatoes were designed to include insecticide that is naturally produced in another plant (just the gene was brought into these potatoes). I wouldn't be suprised if rats felt mild effects because they have such small bodies, still larger than a bug (which would die). I'll use this example, if you spray mosquito or fly spray, it will make the pest have a seizure and die but not impact a human at all. Same thing with these potatoes imo.
His report was also looked at in more detail by a number of independent studies and shown to have flaws.
I'd look at Google Scholar if you have access to the proper credentials to read more into it.
GMO is okay normally and what they release to the public is tested extensively so I never fear about that. The benefits for health and overall food production is what matters in the end, and GMO is one viable way to do it.
Actually, despite assuming the same thing for a long time, one day i bumped into this research paper online. Didn't read it all but i got to look at the pictures (graphs). It was a study done on tens of countries that had or had no mass vaccination for various viruses. The shocking thing was that the drop curve was the same for places without vaccination as it was for those with vaccination. So for example if USA had vaccination for X between 1980 to day, and Bangladesh didn't, the incidence curve was almost identical for both countries - X decreasing consistently by p% every year for both countries.
GMO is okay normally and what they release to the public is tested extensively so I never fear about that.
"There's truth, there's lies and there's statistics". A big majority of people who view the above comic strip, don't get it. And a big chunk of those who know what it says, think "yes, but...". Sad but true.
Ok, I went on and used my search-fu skills and found the study. Woo-hoo! The charts are part of a document prepared by Raymond Obomsawin
Just to finish on a funny note:
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